A Brit holidaymaker’s £5,000 holiday was ruined after she was left bed bound with severe sun poisoning.
Shannon Armer was on a five-day all-inclusive holiday in Albufeira, Portugal with her nan and brother.
On the first day, the 25-year-old applied factor 30 before laying in the 30C (86F) sun for two hours.
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She woke up in agony the next morning and bought cooling spray from a pharmacy.
The support worker was bed bound for the rest of the trip and only went to hospital when she got back to the UK.
Shannon was diagnosed with sun poisoning, wrapped in bandages and given antibiotics.
“It was so painful,” Shannon, from Chorley, Lancashire, told Need to Know.
“I couldn’t even walk.
“I didn’t realise how bad it was until the next day.
“I’d only been laying in the sun for two hours and I was wearing factor 30.
“The holiday was ruined because I was bed bound.
“I was just trying to get a tan but ended up burnt instead.
“Even the doctors were shocked.
“They said they’d never seen a case like it.”
Shannon waited until she got back to the UK to go to hospital because she didn’t have travel insurance.
She added: “I didn’t have insurance so I braved it until we got back to the UK.
“People should 100% get travel insurance as you never know what could go wrong on holiday.
“I didn’t think anything like this would happen to me which is why I didn’t get it.”
